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Alonso would have been killed 20 years ago - Max Mosley

©WRI2 Former FIA president Max Mosley believes Fernando Alonso's crash in last Sunday's Australian GP would have been terminal for the Spanish driver if it had occurred twenty years ago. Mosley initiated an extraordinary  push for increased safety in the aftermath of the tragic events of Imola in 1994 and the subsequent death that weekend of Ayrton Senna. With Alonso emerging unscathed after hitting violently the wall and barrel-rolling into the gravel trap at Albert Park on Sunday, Mosley praised the safety efforts undertaken by the FIA in the past. "I don't think he would have (survived)," Mosley said. "You wouldn't know for sure without a detailed analysis but generally...
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